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Mercury-
Profile Joined December 2010
Great Britain804 Posts
July 10 2011 00:11 GMT
#21
PoltPrime - Popularized the Bio/Banshee/Raven/SCV push, took Protoss months to figure that one out and can still pack a punch. He also recently showed us how to punish greedy teching in TvT even though he used an old an old build.
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
July 10 2011 00:12 GMT
#22
On July 10 2011 09:11 Mercury- wrote:
PoltPrime - Popularized the Bio/Banshee/Raven/SCV push, took Protoss months to figure that one out and can still pack a punch. He also recently showed us how to punish greedy teching in TvT even though he used an old an old build.

Really/ I was under the impression painuser was actually among the first to do that, although admittedly my GSL viewership has been... inconsistent.
Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
July 10 2011 00:12 GMT
#23
Where's Bitbybit and TheBest? These guys were not afraid to win at all costs.
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
SafeAsCheese
Profile Joined June 2011
United States4924 Posts
July 10 2011 00:13 GMT
#24
zerg doesn't have any pioneers
Beardedclam
Profile Joined September 2010
United States839 Posts
July 10 2011 00:14 GMT
#25
On July 10 2011 09:12 Rinrun wrote:
Where's Bitbybit and TheBest? These guys were not afraid to win at all costs.


lololol Bitbybit.
"bye bye" - genius "#$@% you" - Idra------------|Genius|DRG|Keen|---------Breakfast.213
Turbo.Tactics
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany675 Posts
July 10 2011 00:16 GMT
#26
Sen has been the greatest inspiration to me as a Zerg player. His activity with the units and counteratacking constantly was very unique during the betaphase.
Zerg - because Browders sons hate 'em
Gator
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States3432 Posts
July 10 2011 00:18 GMT
#27
MKP, Polt are definite trendsetters for terran. even someone like Goody could possibly be a trendsetter with his absurd pure mech style
TSM
Hypemeup
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden2783 Posts
July 10 2011 00:19 GMT
#28
Jinro played Macroterran way earlier than anyone else and now that is the buzz!

Would players like iEchoic or that spanishiwa guy count? They introduced new and unique styles to play their race.
iamke55
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States2806 Posts
July 10 2011 00:20 GMT
#29
I think Tyler invented the 5/6 gate all-in for PvZ.
During practice session, I discovered very good build against zerg. -Bisu[Shield]
iYiYi
Profile Joined March 2011
United States489 Posts
July 10 2011 00:21 GMT
#30
MarineKing is the biggest trendsetter for SC2 as a whole. Every build now a days is a product of what Marine King created. He made people realize that you could take short cuts as long as you micro your units as cost efficiently as possible to get huge advantages.
IMLyte
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada714 Posts
July 10 2011 00:21 GMT
#31
where's White Ra???
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MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
July 10 2011 00:24 GMT
#32
Terran would be MKP. That marine splitting was never seen before him.
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MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
July 10 2011 00:25 GMT
#33
Jinro and MKP both led the Terran metagame in the first few GSLs.
MKP created the tempo based, pure marine timings, focusing on micro.
On the other hand, Jinro was the first Korean based Terran actually going for macro games. His style basically became the standard, and led to continued Terran dominance after MKP's pushes looked figured out, most notably being adopted MVP in his various GSL successes.
Recently, MMA has caused shockwaves with his hyper aggressive, drop based TvZ, with only one player looking capable of matching him, DRG. While the drops have not been adopted as readily by Terran's at large, the constant aggression has become the standard to contain Zergs, displayed by SCfou in his series against DRG and Nestea.

Feel free to put it in the OP
VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG
sekritzzz
Profile Joined December 2010
1515 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-10 00:29:57
July 10 2011 00:25 GMT
#34
On July 10 2011 09:19 Hypemeup wrote:
Jinro played Macroterran way earlier than anyone else and now that is the buzz!

Would players like iEchoic or that spanishiwa guy count? They introduced new and unique styles to play their race.

I dont like 1 time shoot off players being included. Hes not a trendsetter if hes a one time thing. Same thing for Jinro. I don't think going against the norm and deciding to play macro just because 90% of code S terrans were scv alling(thebest/bitbybit) makes you a trend setter.

Although i'm surprised nobody even mentioned Adelscott. He's probably up there with Genius in terms of trend setting. Also TlO kinda for terran. Hes kind of like the Kiwikaki of terran.
uNtrue_
Profile Joined May 2010
United States150 Posts
July 10 2011 00:26 GMT
#35
In my own list, I would put Kiwikaki at 1 just because most if not all his builds are unique compared to everyone else. When you see someone build like Kiwikaki, you know they took it from him.
Pocketpurple
Profile Joined July 2010
United States80 Posts
July 10 2011 00:26 GMT
#36
Zerg has to include Leenock because of his unique playstyle.
zeru
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
8156 Posts
July 10 2011 00:27 GMT
#37
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425kid
Profile Joined March 2011
416 Posts
July 10 2011 00:28 GMT
#38
Yongwha number 1... the 2 base deathball, the 3 stalker rush... Yongwha and mc are the only ones who can be number 1. MC with his 2 base gateway timings made protoss competitive again. Before his gsl 3 run everyone thought protoss was bad
Pocketpurple
Profile Joined July 2010
United States80 Posts
July 10 2011 00:29 GMT
#39
On July 10 2011 09:27 zeru wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2011 09:24 MrMotionPicture wrote:
Terran would be MKP. That marine splitting was never seen before him.

MVP was marinesplitting before that.

Not in the same fashion of tempo based pure marine attacks. Or at least he was not doing those in televised GSL matches. MVP was more just pre-splitting at a tank based position, not splitting pure marines vs speedling baneling.
eourcs
Profile Joined February 2011
United States459 Posts
July 10 2011 00:29 GMT
#40
On July 10 2011 09:24 MrMotionPicture wrote:
Terran would be MKP. That marine splitting was never seen before him.


Not true, mvp was the first one to use it in GSL vs Zenio on Jungle Basin. MKP was busy nuking noobs in his ro64 game. Nobody remembers mvp's game because he lost the series
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